lot of caricatures of the city and representations' in which the city ceases to exist and i hart's new york responded to what was an anxiety about that. many new yorkers war i heart new york among the nation and they had to identify with the idea there was something about the city, i write about this they were playing around with the font of the campaign, critique newspaper style front and the softness of the heart and that juxtaposition and the early newspaper, print and television campaign featured prominently broadway stars and broadway shows katz, chorus line, some of what remains to be the great musicals and productions many of which originated in the '70s and early '80s, annie, and others and then there was characters from those performances gave their services for free and there was a sense of a great creativity and vitality in association with broadway and times square park about was the first phase this is the second phase and this was a campaign launched by the state and not the city which is now clyde big mccall the empire state development corporation they shifted focus largely

and he could have recall the clinton -- cornwallis at that point to new york. he did and i think in part because he expected some reinforcements from the caribbean himself up which he got then turned out to be useless because washington did not attack me york but he did get those reinforcements and he thought there would be adequate but also because he was confident that the allies in just could not succeed in an attack on york. that he had the capability to repulsed an attack and then cornwallis' could go from there in virginia. >> you historians that no have a grasp of this time like you do, john is a pleasure to have a here. >> thank you. [applause] >> join us sunday at noon for in depth with historian john ferling. edwin burrows talks about the over 30,000 recons were prisoners of war during the american revolution. he says 6000 american men died during battle and close to 18,000 died in prison. this program hosted by the national archives in washing the nbc last about an hour. >> is a real pleasure to be here talking to you about this book because my first

>> well, new york's brand, i think that i love new to work was very successful in many ways and held as one of the most recognized city marketing campaigns globally and was copied enormously. so much so and that was actually allowed in the early phases, it wasn't copy written until later and was allowed to kind of fire early travel, and i think there was an effort following 9/11 to read brand of the city. there's a feeling amongst and much more professionalized code word of branders the brand value of i heart ny had been watered down and they needed a new resident kind of brand in order to do the kind of economic development business development they envisioned. and so, they have free branded immediately following 9/11 with very patriotic imagery and given the loss of the world trade center towers which had figured prominently in a lot of the commercials, the skyline in particular of, you know, this second phase of the i love new york campaign that had to be completely revised and there was intensive focus on the statue of liberty and on the association of a kind of patriotic red whi

out of new york as it would residents of new york is the relentless transformation of the city's built environment over the last 200 years. other than st. paul's chipalone broadway completed in 1766 and tiny bowling greene at the foot of broadway with some of you may know still has the same cast-iron fence around it that it did when the revolution began, every tangible connection to the city's revolutionary past has vanished. the places where thousands of american prisoners died from starvation and disease, the churches, the sugarhouses in the jails, nothing survives. it is all gone and in fact most of these places have disappeared from the urban landscape well before the civil war. think for a moment about the difference between new york and say philadelphia or boston. these cities as you know have preserved multiple physical link to the revolution. carpenters hall, bunker hill, paul revere's house and callous other places that summon up the memory of long ago places and events. new york on the other hand is the most historic seidel of places. its residents glory in the defeat of hist

>> the wheels have come off in california, new jersey an new york. none of them can pay their bills. california is sending out ious. first time in that history that has happened. you look at policies of those states, those are obama economics. they have the highest tax rates on small businesses and on individuals in the country. yet they can't pay their bills. they have the highest rates of unionization and forced union policies. highest unemployment. the other factor that these are supposed to be worker pair dies with liberal policies but people and businesses are moving in droves out of those states. >> that's true. what is a good citizen who wants to do something about this to do? is there a way you can rein this in? >> first question is whether you are going to have the national government do this. this is what people are focused on. these are exactly what president barack obama says that they want. a good example if you want to talk about this is health care since that a discussion. these are states that have intense amount of government interve

we know everything about them because we are watching the new york times. we can't avoid npr. we can't avoid the network news. they don't know anything about class. what they know are the characters put forth in their media. >> have you noticed something else i've noticed and that is that it's almost impossible to have a reasonable debate? when i was in college you were on a debating team. i made my statement, you as the opposition would make your statement. i would read about, you would read out. now it seems to me it's shouting down. >> guest: absolutely right. this was the second book of this kind i've written. the first was called how i accidently joined the fast right-wing conspiracy and found inner peace. and i wrote the book to have a dialogue with people on the other side and to try to explain why i changed the issues that motivated the change and i expected the book to be -- the book was very successful. i expected it to be read by a lot of liberals. i don't think a single liberal, and i am not except reading i don't think a single liberal read the book. i think they s

that will come straight up over new york and into connecticut. some areas could pick up 1 to 2 inches of rain. so the heaviest rains today, really new york city through glue england. the southeast, not bad. temperatures in the mid-80s. a sun and cloud mix. here's a look at the weather outside your window. >>> that heavy rain should move into hartford sometime probably mid-morning to late morning and then continue during the afternoon. definitely bring your umbrella today anywhere in new england. areas to the south look dry. >>> dan, another cool day for areas from chicago to new york. this july is starting to feel like the year without a summer. >> but you know what? we're going to get hit in august, september, october, right? >> we'll see. >> right? all right, no guarantees. thank you, bill. >>> hopeful signs spark stocks, gas prices plummet and bellies and baseball. your early morning business headlines straight ahead. >>> plus, her agent made her out to be a victim in her contract snit with "american idol" producers. but are diva demands reall

and if they controlled the hudson river, in new york and the four new england states would be decided from all of the states on the other side of the hudson river, and would probably have been unthinkable for the americans to have continued the war in this situation. >> you mentioned earlier the disagreement rush limbaugh had with washington about a northern campaign and went on to describe how russian balsam and across the only as four s chesapeake. do i take from that that he essentially maneuvered washington however wisely and to falling on and taking on the yorktown campaign? >> i'm glad you raised that point because i didn't have time to develop it earlier. when washington met with roche jimbo at the wethersfield conference and he wrote the letter to degrase to come to the chesapeake bay and new at that point or is a fairly small british army, relatively small, about 2500 men in virginia. washington thought that was pretty small potatoes and he wanted to go after the bigger force and bigger prize in new york. what they didn't know was that cornwallis at that very moment was actua

he was a leading black organizer, agitator and theoretician of the socialist party of new york. he founder of the new negro movement and its first organization, the liberty league and first newspaper, the waste. the editor of the movement's negro world and principal radical influence on the garvey movement. in addition, harrison was a self-described radical internationalist and he was extremely knowledgeable vietnam era and writer in order or on a africa, asia, the middle east, caribbean, latin america and the muslim world. he was also a union organizer for the afl, the hotel workers and pullman porters, postal unionist and prominent iww supporters and speaker of the 1913 paterson silk strike. he was a pioneer black activist in the free thought and birth control movements. he was a leader in urging the development of race conscious independent political voice for black people and urging support of black candidates responsive to the black community. in urging support for new york city's first elected black official and its importing a black candidate to run for president of the un

so even in "the new york times" is the fact that block them out at the new times is important for them. i'm sorry. [inaudible] >> the traditional media or the model of the traditional media was that you had credibility and you know where to find it, right. and i think we have all seen the talent drain in the traditional media quality over the last few years also, write to your point about so at the same time we have the deep but unverified assertion of the bloggers so there is this bridge that is missing between, how do i group re-create in my on line media the same credibility and one of the things you're saying is does popularity, like trying to basically measure gravitons and that had its limitations. but then you had to inject on that the absence of a business model, right, that on line generates how do you get the robust business model that gives you -- >> there are business model. or may not be enough to support the 1200 people in "the new york times" newsroom. because the structure is different. the paper is not a monopoly anymore. >> we have 500 freelance, i would say if you pu

live at bloomberg headquarters in new york, i am linda bell. doug and alison, back to you. >> thank you. >>> 64 degrees. the news continues. >> still ahead, it is the video you have to see to believe. a metro train operator texting while on the job and at the controls. >> we have a cold front moving through. it is paving the way for some changes. it is paving the way for some changes. for your retirement makes sense, just stay on track. what is...? that's the guidance you get from fidelity. thanks. stay on the line! whatever your destination, fidelity has the people, guidance, and investments to help you find your way. ah, just installed fios in the whole building. now everyone has the fastest upload speeds. and we're giving them a mini netbook. well, i'm sticking with cable. so's ted. (voice) no i'm not! he's just goofing. (voice) no i'm not! (sighing) ted has betrayed me. (announcer) switch to verizon fios tv, phone and internet today and get an ultra-sleek compaq mini netbook. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974

, but new york never leaves you. therefore, do you have a thought about the mayor's race? are you going to endorse? >> yeah, i think that mike bloomberg has done a tremendous job in his eight years as mayor. in 2005 when he was running for a second term i was asked about this. and i said, you know, i'm a virginian now. but if i lived in new york, i would vote for mike bloomberg. well, he's managed, now, to run for a third term and i feel even more strongly about it. i think he is a great candidate. i think what he has done for education, what he has done to manage the economic problems new york is having, what he's done for safety, what he's done for tourism, he's an independent guy who is all trying to solve problems and he is working for the whole city. so i think mike bloomberg should be given a third term and yes, i would say reelect mike bloomberg. >> larry: when we come back, rush limbaugh was apparently on a show the other night and said something about you. 50+ advantage... has gingko for memory and concentra

-- the new york police department. they are using the game to forge ties with the city's muslim community. >> some americans have likened cricket to baseball on volume -- valium. after all, this is a game that can last five days without yielding a result. in parts of new york this summer, young men are hitting 6 is, sending wickets tumbling, and falling made no verse with gusto, and all under the watchful eye of that most unlikely pair of crickets torch -- the new york police department. -- most berer of -- most unlikely beearer of cricket's torch. officer jeff thompson is a native new yorker who happens to share a name was one of crickets most feared dollars. this is the second year he and a handful of other new york cops have been running this competition in an attempt to forge better ties with moslem communities from south asia. >> we did not have a particular specific outreach with the southeastern community. we had a report with them but we wanted better. >> in post-9/11 new york, muslim you have often felt a clou

my city of new york gained because people were no longer afraid to come to live in new york.and if you ask the experts, not me, not senator thune or any of us who have political beliefs that might differ but asked the police experts, what is one of an top reasons why that we have been able to reduce crime in our cities? is that we have had reasonable laws on guns. and we have allowed our larger urban war crime-ridden areas to have stricter laws that our rural areas. i understand it in my state of new york sentence on a way of law and a large breasts the state and i respect that. the heller decision is a decision that i welcome and talked about the right to bear arms in the constitution. and believe in it even before heller. wall but this is what i like to say to my friends on the other side of the aisle and in the nra. no amendment is absolute. you are right when you say why should the first third, fourth, fifth and sixth amendments be expanded as far as we can the second amendment scenes with a pinhole? malicious. you're right. but similarly no amendment is absolute to. most

it's worse in new york than i bet anyplace else. >> and it's illegal to buy a policy in new jersey state where they may have fewer stupid rules, so your policy costs more. glenn: that's right. i want to show you john stossel's segment on healthcare in canada and great britain. watch this. >> you want innovation and fast treatment? that often comes from people pursuing profits. you see that in canada, because even here, there is one area where they do offer easy access to cutting-edge technology. >> c.t. scans, endoscopy, laparoscopy and arthroscopy procedures to evaluate joints, for cartilage abnormality. >> available all the time? >> 24 hours, 7 days a week. >> patients rarely wait. >> if i see a patient that has torn a ligament, we can generally have that patient scheduled within probably a week. >> but you have to bark or meow to get that kind of treatment. want a c.t. scan in canada? private bed clinics say they can get a dog in the next day. for people, the waiting list is a month. glenn: it's absolutely unbelievable. let me ask you both this question, and you said a minute ago that

>> wpa guide to new york. >> to new york city? >> uh-huh, which it fantastic. >> that one actually -- you may not know that michael used that guide to recreate a 1930s new york, and the subway routes and radio stations and everything. what did you find a particular route that was -- >> it was a gift prior to a trip to new york so just kind of perusing, but i have beside reading a lot of new york writers from the 30s. was there a guide to most major cities or primarily by state? >> primarily by state. so there was the guide to new orleans. there was only been a half a dozen or a dozen guides to cities. the guide to washington, dc, new york city, new orleans, lincoln, several other cities. san francisco and l.a. but, yeah, the new york, john cheever worked on that one. actually, in talking with michael, we found sort of evidence and a description of a day in coney island, the fingerprints of cheever and how his perspective kind of goes from morning to dusk and gets this whole sort oflyrical view of the board walk. >> i just won erre

marcy from new york. >> good morning. i don't have any slides which is unusual for me and i am a new yorker so i talk fast. a lot of people have talked about the importance of planning and i am definitely a proponent of emergency response planning ahead of time and ironically we were in the midst of finalizing a revision of the 2006 pandemic plan this spring when the h1n1 outbreak of life in new york city and although overall the planning process for pandemic helped the response this spring there were definitely several assumptions that ended up not being applicable to this particular outbreak. first, we thought we would have morning ahead of time a pandemic was occurring and that it was more likely to be recognized overseas prior to its arrival in new york city and second, we were preparing for the worse case scenario in 1918 like pandemic and we thought that we would be able to address my older for the worst-case scenario but we hadn't thought through in enough detail how we might need to modify our actions fortunately a

velazquez of new york. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 610, the gentlewoman from new york, ms. velazquez, and a member opposed, each will control 15 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from new york. ms. velazquez: pursuant to the rule, i send to the desk a modification of amendment number 1. the chair: the clerk will report the modification. the clerk: modification to amendment number 1 printed in house report 111-192 offered by ms. velazquez of new york. the fourth amendtory instruction on page 4 is amended by striking line 16 and inserting line 15. ms. velazquez: mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent to suspend the reading. the chair: without objection, the amendment is modified. the gentlewoman from new york. ms. velazquez: mr. chairman, the manager's amendment makes technical and conforming changes to the underlying legislation. it also incorporates several important amendments offered by members. i would like to thank these members for their contributions, mr. broun, mr. boren, mr. b

a pie in the respect isface is respect for the new york yankees. >> storms in the middle othe country. gomr regional forisasecin ct up. you'al watching "early today." >>> good morning to you. i'm joe krebs. >> and i'm eun yang. breaking news first. a group of local students has been quarantined overseas. >> plus, no rest for the weary. what you'll see fewer of along several major interstates in virginia. >> on the auction block. a local landmark bearing the name of a political scandal is up for sale >> a hazard behind the wheel. the warnings in a new r >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." >>> in sports, last night the ed hot new york yankees not only enjoyed yet another walk-off victory, they grabbed a share of first place as well. here's nbc's fred rogan with an early look at all your sports headlines. >> good morning. the streaking yankees enjoyed the second half of their season. last night they won the fourth straight in dramatic fashion. at the new stadium, andy pettitte pitching his best game against the orioles. one run in 7 1/3. tied at one. matsui

new york le. the company you keep. >> a small plane crash near an oklahoma city highway killing one person and critically injurying another. it looked like the pilot w trying to land. it crashed on the road. >> investigators are still gathering evidence at the scene. an aaron airlines flight returned to boston. it was heading to puerto rico. someone smelled smoke in the bathroom. the passengers were put on other flights while maintenance workerscam ined the -- scam ined the plane. >> sarah palin spent her last day in office sharing with fellow members. >> protesters gathered in front of the new jersey mayor calling for him to redesign. prosecutors say he took thousands of dollars. he took off earlier this month. he says he's innocent. >> a lightening strike targeted a woman's car while she was driving down the highway. they were driving through fort lauderdale. can you see the damage the lightening caused to her car. either the driver nor her son were hurt. you may want to take a look at this wate

claire, thanks. >>> and just ahead on "the morning news" a deadly wrong-way crash in new york. >>> and a scary spinout. a hydroplane loses control during a race. >>> first, katie couric has a preview of tonight's ""cbs evening news."" >>> ten years ago colombia was in collapse. now, a dramatic turn around is under way. crime and kidnapping is down and law and order is being restored. we'll go inside the colombian jungle with a look at the success story tonight on the "cbs evening news." can i get it back? (announcer) ask your doctor how to help treat osteoporosis with once-a-month actonel. actonel is clinically proven to help reverse bone loss and can help increase bone strength to help prevent fractures. so you can get back some of what you lost. do not take actonel if you have low blood calcium, severe kidney disease, or cannot sit or stand for 30 minutes. follow all dosing instructions. stop taking actonel and tell your doctor if you experience difficult or painful swallowing, chest pain or severe or continuing heartburn. these may be signs of serious upper digestive problems. promp

from 1609, it's in the new york state library in albany. g is head of the new netherland project there. so this was an assumption of what the world look like. >> this is looking right down at the north pole. the idea was that the further north you went, the warmer it would become because the rays of the sun hit directly in the north. this was a theory that they had. >> reporter: it proved wrong. >> it proved wrong. >> reporter: so after failing three times to find this northern route to asia, henry hudson, defying his orders from the dutch east india company, turns around, sails across the atlantic and finds himselffa ci t he iand the cal indians calle man-aat-a island of hills. >> this is an image of of what henry hudson would have seen in 1609 when he sailed in new york harbor and started all the events that led to new york city as we know it today. >> reporter: eric sanderson is is any kolgs. he spent ten years working on the manhattan project. >> we've used all historical maps, archeological sources, the historical sources, descriptions

the gentleman from new york. mr. arcuri: i yield back the balance of my time. and i urge a yes vote on the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york yields back his time. all time having expired the question is on whether the house will now consider the resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the question is decided in the affirmative. the gentleman from new york is recognized for one hour. mr. arcuri: thank you, madam speaker. for purposes of debate only, i yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from florida, mr. diaz-balart. all time yielded in consideration of the rule is for purpose of debate only. and i yield myself such time as i may consume. i also ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. arcuri: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for such time as he may consume. mr. arc

i was vacationing in cal so i'm back in the new york groove. tell cnbc news that michael jackson's doctor prescribed a powerful prescription sedative the night the pop star died. toxicology results are expected this week. >>> president obama will meet with the black professor and white police officer at the center of the recent controversial arrest that has fired up a national debate over race relations in an apparent attempt to cool things off. the three will meet for drinks this week, very likely on thursday evening. >>> athletes from around the world put on extra weight to go for the gold. competitors faced off in the second annual sumo suit athletics championship. yeah, that exists. it included the high jump, long jump and 40 0-yard dash. oh, yeah, that's -- what can you say to that? >> you can't. >> we have so got to try that. >> no! >> it's a great -- >> i'll watch you guys and report on it. >> taet a great segue because i'm going to talk about football in japan where people don't know that it actually goes on. >> american-style. >> yeah.

you love it in new york. >> i love new york. i love new york. and l.a. is, you know, l.a.id of getting sick. >> always, always. i don't think anybody over 30 should travel on planes. i'll do like anything. you know, i'll do anything not to get sick. let's see, i try a couple of things. oil of oregano. which is, literally, oil of oregano. and i'll burp like italian food all day. >> will: in the future, there are no diseases. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: we call him dj double mustard. [ laughter ] >> and the other thing is -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: sorry. >> that's okay. neti pot, have you ever tried neti pot? >> jimmy: i love this thing. wait a second. describe what it is. >> okay, well, what it is like a small porcelain pitcher. and, like, the spout is really small. and you actually heat up some water and put salt in it and you run the water up through one nostril and down through the other nostril. >> jimmy: that's the most disgusting thing! >> will: and all this stuff comes out, right? >> exactly. in all the years that i've been married to kevin, he said that's the sexiest thi

the gentleman from new york. mr. serrano: i'd like to yield two minutes now to a gentlewoman who notwithstanding some of the things you see happening on this house floor is really the only representative from washington, d.c., ms. norton. the chair: the gentlelady from washington, d.c., is recognized for two minutes. ms. norton: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i thank the gentleman and the ranking member and the committee for bringing this bill forward, especially chairman serrano for consistently showing respect for our citizenship as american citizens by not interfering with local governments. mr. chairman, it's very painful for a member to come to the floor to ask for you to vote for their local budget. it is painful that that member doesn't have a vote on her own local budget. yet, some members are quick to step up with amendments of their own on a budget they had nothing to do with raising, as if we were just another federal appropriation. one member, i regret to say, came forward with some misinformation whi

i'm john harwood of cnbc and "the new york times." >> i'm norah o'donnell and welcome to the "new york times special edition." on today's front page, house panels approve health plans. in both the house ways and means committee, they crossed party lines. this follows the approval of the plan earlier this week. the plan stands at 3-5. also, the energy and commerce committee in the house and senate finance are the two panels still left without a finished bill, promising progress by next week. >> it remains to be seen if health care will be a bipartisan bill. i sat down with senator chris dodd to talk about it. here's what he had to say. >> does it look clear to you at this point that this is in the end, going to be a democratic bill that goes through the reconciliation process? think it will be? >> not necessarily. we're sitting in a room here where a few weeks ago i got out the credit card bill. in a week or two, it passed 90-5. would i prefer bipartisan? you bet i would. but given the choice between a bipartisan bill that's weak and doesn't do much or one that gets more done, accessibl

new york should be allowed to opt out with an exemption. tandard would eviscerate concealed-carry permitting standards moving to a new national lowest common denominator and would even allow individuals ineligible to obtain a bermt in their own state the means to shop around for a lower standard in other states that other permits to out of state residents undercutting laws that render the applicant ineligible. a study using f.b.i. crime statistics demonstrates relabsinrelaxingthe laws could e affect on the crime rate with the violent crime rate that kept laws fell by an average of 30% and they dropped only by 15% in states with weak conceal-carry laws. a second concern is the lack of acceptable safety standards in all states. according to the "the washington post," in at least two-thirds of states, some form of safety training is required in order to receive a permit. abusers of alcohol are prohibited from getting a permit and those convicted of certain misdemeanors are prohibited. in many states, statutory requirements are minute tall and d

he was on the retial and new york. >> guest: he is broadcast from l.a. but syndicated and new york. but any case, he also writes. >> host: a conservative jew i believe. >> guest: yes, very conservative and very jewish. he wrote the catalogue of disasters liberalism has visited culture. restrictions on free and honest speech in the name of sensitivity, the remaking of american history to the therapy of minorities for women, a general decline in civility, the absence of fathers in countless homes through the welfare state, the stigmatization of men as potential predators and all the other mischaracterization man by radical feminism, the corruption of childhood through an aggressively sexualized culture, and that's just the start. >> host: there's one thing he points out early on and that is the absence of debate. the absence of civilized commerce of ideas. >> guest: that's right. >> host: i would leave that on the left wing you? feet of the left? >> guest: absolutely specifically on academia where the left flourishes and ideas which they consider a political to a left liberal agenda a

that story at the top of the hour. >> i'm poppy harlow in new york. last summer the trading commission said it was excessive speculation by oil traders that did not cause oil prices to jump over $140 a barrel. now, the commission is proposing new regulations, heidi, to curb excessive speculation. will it reverse its position on that, too? we'll tackle that in the next hour. >> i'm elizabeth cohen in atlanta. when swine flu hits season, it is expected to hit hard. this fall, who needs to be the most worried about swine flu? i'll have that answer at the top of the hour. >> thanks, guys. >>> we will also take you inside an operating room seeing a patient being put under with propofol. powerful sedative michael jackson may have been given before he died. >>> it may be next week before we learn the cause of michael jackson's death. yesterday investigators searched the las vegas home and office of jackson's doctor. cnn's ted rowlands has an update. >> reporter: investigators left, according to murray's attorney with cell phones and a computer hard drive. ano

we'll explain that one. 43 minutes past the hour. ♪ new york, new york >> 7:00 in new york. just a chance of those storms coming back. the high of 88 degrees. welcome back to the most news in the morning. new york's coney island is getting a facelift, and no one is disputing the fact it needs one. >> but some people think that the city's upscale renovation plans will kill coney island's character. we're joined live from one of america's most famous beach towns. a lot of controversy about this, richard. what's it all about? >> that's right. my camera man told me his parents met under the board walk here at coney island a couple of years ago. may have been a lot of drama back then. not like what's occurring now. the fight over the restoration of coney island. >>. >> reporter: coney island, a new york city institution. the beach, the rides, yes, the freak shows. >> getting the hot dogs down! that's a true champion. >> of course, the hot dogs. a long time ago, brooklyn's coney island was the wrong place to be, cooling off at a time when air conditioning didn't exist. on a summer

why couldn't "the new york times" -- if the "new york times" could actually capture the intelligenceof their writers and these people who are doing the great twitter live live logs and their incredibly smart readers -- >> the f.t. and the guardian write write -- the argument is you have an incredibly wise crowd and the challenge is to bring this out. in this new age, when i talk to companies about what their value is, they're always inwardly focused. media or any other company. we have our brand, our content, our reputation, our this our that. they hardly ever say our public. i'm violating this rule right now. we're in a smart crowd. what are we doing up here just talking to ourselves? that's true of companies too. if they can find ways to capture the wisdom of their crowd, just in equal at a timive ways. they're missing that intelligence. >> when we were doing weblogs and we had 500 bloggers for us before we sold the company. i tried to hire journalist the. every time i ran into the same kind of problems, specifically with the audience. they had no interest in interacting with the a

new york city, average high should be 80s. it was only 71. you can see everyone was a little cooler than they should have been yesterday. today, same story. no big heat out here. the one storm just an exit. we have another one rolling through tennessee, kentucky, heading through indiana. and then a big area off the coast we're going to have to watch. all of this is going to try to converge over new england it looks like in two days. for today, a lot of that rain up through through indiana. that's a look at your national forecast. now a look at the weather outside your window. albany, new york, 82 degrees. providence, rhode island, 83. pittsburgh, pennsylvania, right around 79. louisville, kentucky, we'll call it 72. well, christina, that's a look at your soggy forecast once again. >> all right. thanks so much, bill. >>> apple shines, starbucks bubbles, and are youready for chocolate made with camel's milk? your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, it was an all-star week for cameron diaz. she dated not one but two of

it is a tornado in western new york caught on tape. but twister was spotted about 20 miles east of buffalo yesterday, damaging buildings, toppling trees, and knocking out power to more than 1000 homes. the national weather service reports that the twister packed winds of more than 110 miles per hour. the path was more than 4 miles long and 100 yards wide. no one was hurt in the storm. we had some potential severe weather. >> it all depends on where you live and what you saw in the sky. earlier, we have a thunderstorm watch for a good chunk of the mid-atlantic. that has now been cancelled out. there was a ton of rent, up 4 to 2 inches of rain in some areas. looking outside right now, it remains cloudy, breezybut dry. we have just a few random showersve oler the overn rr ho s.ur the patuxent river and navalouns station had more than two inches of rain. it is currently 76 degrees. it is still stic and a uncomfortable out there. the dewpoint levels are in the upper 60's to around 70 degrees. to the west is where the cold front is finally b

attorney for the southern district of new york. was a clerk for the court of appeals in the district of columbia and 4 associate justice byron wright on the supreme court. thank you for being here and we look forward to your testimony. >> thank you for the opportunity to comment on the nomination of judge sonia sotomayor. i have known her since she became a judge in 1992. as you noted before i joined the faculty at yale law school in 1985 i was a prosecutor in new york and special assistant to the department of justice in washington. the federal prosecutor, i had the pleasure of working with louis freeh. this is an exceptionally strong nomination. my judgment has nothing to do with sonia sotomayor's sex, ethnicity or personal story. i am judging her on the same criteria that i use when i was asked by that yale daily news some years ago. i answered yes then and i answer yes now, specifically, i am confident that sonia sotomayor will serve the nation with powerful intelligence, vigor, and an abiding commitment to the constitution. mo

that doesn't include extra fees you play at the airport or on the plane. >>> at "the new york times" tech byte, a small camera that packs a big punch. olympus is releasing a camera that's a new size of a point and shoot. but the quality of other cameras. and "the times'" sam grobart tested it out. >> it takes fantastic photographs in broad daylight. far better than you've seen from a point and shoot. but there's a big but here. the ep-1, doesn't have a flash. it's going to come out looking grainy. not as grainy as a point and shoot. but still grainy. >> the camera costs $800. you can read a full review of it on "the new york times" website. >> looks cool. >>> one city's controversial plan to fly the homeless back to their hometowns. >>> plus, the truth about tanning beds. doctors now say they are deadly, especially for young women. can your body wash nourish this deeply? the moisturizer in other body wahes sits on top of skin. only new dove has # nutriummoisture... which can nourish deep down. new dove body wash with nutriummoisture. superior natural nourishment for your skin. >>> wel

troops invading upstate new york? why former vice president cheney wanted to send soldiers to buffalo back in 2002. >>> a massive corruption bust in new jersey lifts the lid on a grizzly and lou accurative world. >>> surfers come out in force when the coast gets 20-foot high waves but there's danger. >>> oh, you made it to the weekend. this is hln. i'm natasha curry. thank you for joining us. >>> the furor isn't dying down yet. president obama spoke about the arrest of his friend harvard professor henry louis gates jr. by cambridge sergeant james crowley. cambridge police officials may release audio tape evidence in the case and that could include the original 911 call and officer radio calls by cops who arrested gates last week for disorderly conduct. gates was arrested outside his home after a 911 call of a possible break-in. he says he proved his identity to officers and the dust-up leading to his arrest in his own home was racial profiling. the arresting officer sergeant james crowley says he did nothing wrong and

sanjay gupta, cnn, new york. >>> this week a new chapter in an epic report, "black in america ii" thee, solutions and challenges. watch this groundbreaking special wednesday and thursday. >>> joe jackson speaks to larry king. randy okay joins us with that and more. chris brown with his on-camera apology for attacking rihanna when "360" continues. such as rolling out more innovative products to really meet the needs of the customers. we actually move with the economic times. customers who maybe have lost their jobs, we're looking at waiving fees for them. we've introduced add it up. our risk free cd. it's one stop shopping for all the answers they're looking for. you just kind of have to learn to, just you know, just be there. that's how we keep moving. right now, 1.5 million people are on a conference call. 750,000 wish they weren't. - ( phones chirping ) - construction workers are making 244,000 nextel direct connect calls. 1 million people are responding to an email. - 151 accidentally hit "reply all." - ( foghorn blows ) that's happening now. america's most dependable 3g network br

may not be tapes or absolute cooperation, but this dispute has as "the new york times" put it this morning, reignited a national discussion about the relationship between race and law enforcement. >> mike, thank you for that. we're just learning now from the massachusetts news wires, that a black police officer who was with, at the home when gates was arrested, says he supports 100% how his white fl low officer handled the situation. >> let's bring in kevin sack of "the new york times," who won a pulitzer prize a few years ago. thanks for being with us. let me ask you from your experience in that series, how universal are experiences of the kind that skip gates and this police officer had in cambridge? that is mutual misunderstanding. skip gates thinks there was profiling involved. does this happen thousands of times every day across this country? >> i can't come up with a count, but i think it is common place and if you talk to african-americans in this country, they'll tell you so. what was fascinating about this situation and particularly the president's involvement is that like so many

but first rick is in a new york aquarium. this is coney island, new york aquarium. about him coming up. hey, danny. good morning, good morning. stay with us. gecko vo: first rule of "hard work equals success." gecko vo: that's why geico is consistently rated excellent or better in terms of financial strength. gecko vo: second rule: "don't steal a coworker's egg salad, 'specially if it's marked "the gecko." come on people. here's the spacious room where he relaxed with the free paper... the desk where kevin took advantage of the free internet... and where he grabbed a free hot breakfast to start his morning. so where's kevin? he's out treating his customers to lunch with the money he didn't spend back at his hotel. spacious rooms. free breakfast. free internet. and now when kevin stays three times, he gets a free $50 cash card. and so can you. choice hotels are everywhere, with the best value anywhere. one pack. 6 days. that's elations. new elations. clinically proven to improve joint comfort... in as little as six days. drinking it every day keeps it working. elatio

. >> this is "the new york times special edition." >> on the front page this hour, breaking news. senator chris dodd diagnosed with prostate cancer. >> we'll hear from him in a short time. he's scheduled to speak at a press conference. that's going to be any minute now. you can see the setting. what nbc news has learned is that this was detected from a routine test and caught early. he expected to have surgery during this august recess and be back in the senate by september. this is a pretty interesting development. >> it is. i talked to several dodd aides today who say this is not going to affect his re-election plans. >> let's bring in david, the congressional correspondent for "the new york times." david, thanks so much for joining us. senator chris dodd has been leading this fight for his friend, senator ted kennedy, who is suffering from brain cancer. what have you learned about senator dodd's condition? >> that it was detected early. it's a tough break for chris dodd, who really has been probably the hardest working senator in the last few months. and as you said, he has thi

not a threat for boston or new york city.owever, tomorrow they will continue to the east and likelien increase in their scope across much of the area. meanwhile, a look at temperatures this morning. here's a look at your regional forecast. let's check out your local. providence, rhode island, 83 degrees, sunshine today. again, clouds will be increasing across the area, especially into tomorrow. louisville, kentucky, 84 degrees. myrtle beach, good chance for some thunderstorms. so, dan, yeah, a areas coming in with showers today. though more on the way tomorrow. we'll take a close look at that forecast coming up. >>> not a good day if you're going out to beat the zombie record. >> it's going to be a tough one, especially in southern south carolina. >> thank you, todd. appreciate it. >>> g.m. gets the okay. chrysler gets some new blood at the top. and why being a top spy and being on facebook doesn't exactly watch up. your early morning business headlines straight ahead. >>> plus, neck and neck down the stretch. and we're still